...Ali Saif Said Al-Aufi; Nabhan Al-Harrasi; Azhar Al-Abri Purpose The purpose of this study was to identify the status of using crowdsourcing to develop information services through the Twitter platform and to determine the factors affecting such usage. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative...

.... Practical implications The lesson learned may be useful for the Digital Editions of future crowdsourced humanities projects. Originality/value Letters of 1916 is the first crowdsourced humanities project in Ireland. The theme of the project is topical, emotive and socially important in Ireland...

...Mark Patrick Baggett; Anne Bridges; Ken Wise; Sarah Tanner; Jennifer Mezick Purpose – Researchers at the University of Tennessee Libraries experimented with crowdsourcing to determine if contributions by members of the public could be utilized to add citations and subject tags to a new online...